DEFENCE OF USE OF GAS BASIC IDEA OF HAGUE AGREEMENT GERMANY'S INTERPRETATION
(Received June 28, 8.20 a.m.) : AMSTERDAM. 27th June. " The Cologne Gazette, in a semi-official defence of the use of asphyxiating gases, says-: "The basic idea of the Hague Agreement is the prevention of unnecessary cruelty and unnecessary killing when milder methods or putting out of action axe possible^ It has always been permissible to compel evacuation of positions by flooding. " Those who were not indignant or surprised when water was used as a weapon against us in Flanders are not entitled to be indignant when we employ the air to carry stupefying gases. The Hague Convention desired to ! prevent the wholesale destruction of human lives without a chance to escape, | which occurs if poisonous gas shells are rained down on a defenceless enemy, who does not see them coming and is irremediably exposed to them. The changed forms of warfare makes new methods continually necessary, and since this war We must draw our own conclusions from the conditions of trench warfare. Tile enemy's outcry is only due to his incapacity to emulate the results of German science."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1915, Page 7
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189DEFENCE OF USE OF GAS BASIC IDEA OF HAGUE AGREEMENT GERMANY'S INTERPRETATION Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 151, 28 June 1915, Page 7
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